Re: Make up new Gods, dang it!

From: L.Castellucci <lightcastle_at_yVbVVxWANbi9KQQt4lHRcORJXBcLLaxbN3gT3n8Uu-5oZXhYUI-c8huVTgLOC-wz>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:06:51 -0400


On July 15, 2007 03:50 am, Greg Stafford wrote:
> > It's not the split that ever bothered me. It was the implication that
> > given religions were ONLY 1 or the other.
>
> Woah woah woah!!
> I have tried to emphasize over and over that RELIGIONS are ALWAYS
> (almost) mixed.

You have. The HQ rule book, as written, failed to make that clear. (To me, anyway, and I suspect I am not alone.)

> > Or almost exclusively such. So
> > concentration really seemed the natural default - and was necessary to
> > being a "good magic user" it seemed - with Devotee and Shaman requiring
> > it.
>
> Devotee + someone devoted to a single entity.
> Shaman = a specialist, "devoted" to a single world and system of doing
> maic.

But both require concentration, IIRC.

> I am hoping that in the new edition of Glorantha HQ that MD does will
> have, as its basic magic, a system that doesn't even differentiate,
> but only has a single (MIXED) magic system.

That would be lovely, and would have probably avoided a lot of the confusion.

Best,
LC            

Powered by hypermail